CLAHRC Fellows 2017

Ingrid trained as a Physiotherapist and has a background in Rehabilitation of Stroke and the Older Adult. She currently holds the post of Lead Physiotherapist on the In-patient Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in Norwich. At the same time she has a secondment to the Eastern Clinical Research Network, one day a week, to work on hosting NIHR Portfolio studies in the Stroke Service – these include FAST-Indicate (a trial of Functional Strength Training in Upper Limb Therapy) and EXTRAS (Extended Trial of Rehabilitation after Stroke). Her interest clinically is in lower limb function but she also has an interest in supporting…

Ben Bowers is a Community Palliative Care Nurse working in Huntingdonshire. After gaining extensive experience in community nursing, Ben specialised in palliative and end of life care. His CLAHRC project is to investigate and summarise the current knowledge of the use and impact of anticipatory medications in end of life care. As part of this work he is undertaking a qualitative study exploring General Practitioners’ views, experiences and decision-making concerning anticipatory prescribing for adults at home in their last days of life.

Andrea Nunney is a senior Mental Health Pharmacist and has worked in Psychiatry since 1998 with Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust. Andrea initially worked in the drug and alcohol service developing an ‘in-house’ methadone maintenance service and now currently works in acute services, which includes the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team. Andrea also has an educational role, primarily for service users but also for carers, nurses, medical staff and more recently as a teacher practitioner for the UEA pharmacy degree. Through her multidisciplinary work, particularly with the home treatment team Andrea works closely with nurse prescribers. Her CLARHC research…

Liz qualified an advance nurse practitioner from South Bank Univerisity in 2013 and currently works in general practice. She won an NHS Innovation acorn award in 201/16 for her work using C Reactive Protein point of care testing in the management of lower respiratory tract infections in primary care. With that seed fund she has been able to extend the study out to 8 sites this winter within Hertfordshire. This summer she has focused on communication and promoting antimicrobial stewardship. To date she has written news articles, presented at RCGP and QNI conferences, reviewed a NICE MIB for the Alere…

Tim has worked clinically in the field of Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health since 2007 in Norfolk, UK. He has worked on various youth mental health research projects and was trial manager for the first phase of the NIHR funded PRODIGY (Prevention of long term social disability in young people with emerging psychological difficulties) trial. As a Research Clinical Psychologist, Tim is local Co-Investigator for the PRODIGY trial and research development lead for Child, Family and Young People Services at the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). He has an interest in transforming youth mental health services in line…

Frances completed her PhD in psychology at University College, Cardiff in 1989 and worked in information technology before practising as a business psychologist, mentor and coach. After gaining an MSc in Health Psychology in 2009 she began her current role working with the Centre for Self Management Support at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. She led the Trust’s evaluation of Co-creating Health, a programme funded by The Health Foundation to implement self-management support for people living with COPD and went on to evaluate other projects to support self-management including a web-based approach and co-production to inform clinical commissioning. In 2015 she became affiliated…

Tim Elwell-Sutton is a Consultant in Public Health working at Thurrock Borough Council where he leads on health improvement services. His academic background includes an MPhil in Medical Anthropology and PhD in Public Health. He has worked in public health and related areas in the UK, Hong Kong, and Nepal. His research interests include health inequalities, access to health care and health services research. During the CLAHRC Fellowship he will be carrying out an economic evaluation of a school-based intervention to prevent the initiation of smoking.

Maria initially qualified as a nurse in 1993. She has experience of many different clinical areas and roles in both primary and secondary care. The last 10 years have been in primary care in Cambridgeshire where she currently works as a community matron providing nursing care, support and advice to patients with long term conditions and complex needs. As a Queens Nurse, Maria’s has been recognised as striving to deliver quality care though evidence based clinical practice which led her to undertake an MSc in Clinical Research in 2016. An academic and clinical interest in frailty has led to her…

Dr Sarah Hopkins is a Specialty Registrar training in Geriatric Medicine. She is particularly interested in issues around end of life care in the frail and elderly and is using her CLAHRC Fellowship to explore advance care planning with this group of patients. Sarah is also involved in teaching for the University of Cambridge: she is a supervisor in clinical medicine and a facilitator for the Clinical School Ethics and Law programme. Sarah is currently Chief Resident at Hinchingbrooke Hospital.

Amanda is a clinical psychologist, who has worked clinically in the NHS since qualifying in 2000. She has worked in community adult mental health teams within Cambridgeshire, and currently works in the Personality Disorder Community Service. Amanda’s clinical interests have been in the area of long term and complex mental health, and the role of attachment and early trauma on the development of emotional and interpersonal patterns. Amanda is experienced in the delivery of CBT, CAT and MBT therapies, and in delivering training on working with personality disorder type difficulties. Most recently, she has held the position of pathway lead…

Larissa Prothero is a Research Paramedic for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Over the last 7 years she has established herself as an experienced pre-hospital emergency research clinician. She has a longstanding interest in sepsis and has been involved in various pre-hospital care improvement initiatives, including a sepsis recognition and management programme, hyperglycaemia and sepsis care and pre-hospital neutropenic sepsis education. During the CLAHRC fellowship Larissa will be exploring the contributions of pre-hospital emergency care systems, and their inter-relationships in ambulance sepsis recognition, in order to develop a sepsis risk assessment tool for ambulance services.

Sarah is a Clinical Psychologist employed by Virgin Care Ltd (recently transferred from Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust). Since completion of a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hull in 2009, she has worked in NHS child mental health teams and over the last four years has developed a clinical psychology role as part of a multi-disciplinary autism assessment team based in a Community Paediatrics service in West Essex. Her CLAHRC project will aim to describe the emotional and behavioural needs of children accessing support from the child development centre, to inform multi-agency care pathways and service development.